On Tweetstats you can find information about a user's tweet. Tweets per hour, per day of week, per month, , when does he post, how many tweets in what month, replys per user and client used. All in nice graphs. The first time you look for a user (and yes, we are all ego surfers so your first search will be yourself! ) it will take some time but once completed it looks like this, also available as a cloud.

At the twist site you can compare different words and see how often per day they are mentioned on twitter, a bit like Google's trends.

It is funny to see that the audience of Twitter is a rather niche one, look for example at Drupal vs Joomla on twist. Drupal is always mentioned a lot more. Now take a look at Drupal vs Joomla "in the real world" on Google Trend; Joomla outranks Drupal at least 5 times.

Conclusion: Twitter peopel are more intelligent.

Qwitter is the funny name of the tobaccofreeflorida.com site that can help you stop smoke cigars. Follow iquit and tell the bot how much you smoked.

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After having spend 5 days in bed being ill, I am now on less then one cigar a day (unless I drink), far less then the 10+ I was on 3 weeks ago. Want to quit? Follow these instructions!

Twitter tip of the day: Make an account on IWantSan.com, a PA that can help you with your agenda, sends iCals, understands BCCed mail with text like: "remember to blog in 4 hours". And that can be followed on twitter so there are extra channels to manage your agenda. See the help page on IWantSandy and follow Sandy on twitter, she is "S" (just one letter). Note: if you have a non US mobile number, Sandy will not help you on twitter. I hope they fix this soon.

The (dead tree) newspaper sector is not particularly known for being innovative or getting up to speed. In fact, it seems that they only look at each other; what system is newspaper Y using, we have to get that as well! As if online the newspapers are competing with each other. They are, but more important, they are competing against every single website in the world. People only have x hours per day to get the latest news or backgrounds per day, and every minute spend on a blog or on a wiki, cant be spend on the Great news paper website.

It seems that the newspaper sector is waiting for the result of The Record Industry versus The Internet and will decide after that has been settled (in a year or 5 ) what they will do online. In the mean time, there is -or so I have been told- something going on on the Internet that is called UGC. Based upon the old credo If You Don't Like the News...Go Out and Make Some of Your Own, these blogs, wikis and other 2.0media are far cheaper to produce and have more knowledge on the subject; hard to believe for Mr. Journalist but true.

But the newspaper industry is still looking at their own navel. At my former employer, I had nearly all Dutch newspapers as a customer and I also visited some "independent" newspapers from the UK and "world" newspapers from Germany. And while all these newspapers where experimenting with new technologies and ways to generated income and bind readers (and let them become writers) at the lower levels in the business units, at the corporate level, the CTO's and CIO's were still full of the proprietary nonsense CMS-es. And they had to be, since they were taking on boat trips with lots of beer and "no cameras" by the proprietary CMS vendors. I once saw a very ugly site that was rather expensive; around 500K euros (800k dollars) that could have been made in Drupal for less then 1/10 and more then that, be a lot better, faster and hipper.

Recently however, I see lots of old media switch towards Drupal. And not just as a CMS or even CMFramework, but as an Enterprise Service Bus. A central hub were all data is aggregated, enriched and send towards another medium.

If you read the news, three things striked me:

NEW YORK The New York Sun has begun using WoodWing's Smart Connection Enterprise editorial solution from WoodWing, headquartered in Zaandam, the Netherlands, with U.S. offices in Detroit.

The paper's WoodWing editorial content-management system has been used in conjunction with Drupal, an open-source Web application framework, as the publishing platform.

Launched in 2002 as New York City's first new general-interest newspaper in two generations, and with a Web site designed by Danilo Black, the Sun now claims an online and print readership of more than one million.

And the three things were:

1. The NYSun is indeed running an old version of Drupal. Good for them! (well, good for them running Drupal, they might want to upgrade)
2. There is a Dutch company Woodwing (running Drupal) that is rather big in the media and has 4 offices worldwide
3. They actually have a rather good slution for the media.

Although their 3 tier graph on this page is a lot of BS!

It is not that the NYSun is a very big site but the cracks in the proprietary CMS world are getting bigger by the day and every newspaper switching towards Drupal, is a good thing. Because in 3 years time, there will be a lot of action, jobs and money to be made in the combination of Drupal and old skool newspapers.